PPL-S1-P1 Flashcards
What are the aircraft documents?
- Pilot’s operating handbook
- Aircraft journey log
- Certificate of Registration
- Certification of air worthiness
- Annual Airworthiness Information Report
- Weight and Balance
- Certificate of insurance
- Radio Licence
- Interception Procedures
What does the P.O.H. include?
- General information
- Limitations
- Emergency Procudures
- Normal Procedures
- Performance
- Weight and Balance / Equipment List
- Airplane and system description
- Handling, Services, and Maintenence
- Supplements
Aircraft Journey log
- Updated after each flight
- New Journey Log must include the last 2 flight info in the previous log book
- Old journey log book must be kept for at least 1 year
What to do when there is an aircraft defect or malfunction
- Notify dispatch
- Enter relevent data in Aircraft Journey Log with pilot’s name and signature
Emergency Locator Transmitter (E.L.T.)
- Checked and certified every year
- Battery replaced at the recommended manufacturer’s interval
Time interval to check magnetic compass
Once a year
Time interval to check the Static system
2 years
Time interval to check the Pitot system
Regular maintenance
Certificate of Registration is valid for life but void when:
- Aircraft sold outside of Canada
- Aircraft crashed
- Ordered by the minister
Certificate of Airworthiness
-Needs to be revalidated every year or after each 100-flight-hour inspection
- Void if the aircraft has an accident
- Void if Weight and Balance are not respected (too heavy or weight distributed poorly)
- Void if other circumstances makes the aircraft not airworthy
Manufacturer’s ORIGINAL Weight and Balance report include:
- Date the aircraft was built
- Unusable fuel quantity
- Maximum oil quantity
- Appropriate oil quantity for the aircraft
Subsequent Weight and Balance amendments would include:
- Every change in the aircraft’s W&B must be described
- New weight and new Center of Gravity
- If aircraft weighs less than 12,500lbs, use original weight and balance, if not reweight every 5 years
- Reweight if paint over paint
Radio Station Licence
- Valid for a year
- Not mandatory in canadian airspace
- Required in international airspace
Aircraft Journey Log Information
-Aircraft Registration
- Year the plane was built
- Annual Airworthiness date
- Inspection date
- How many hours left before the next inspection
Pilot should always take off with:
- Pilot’s licence
- Valid medical certificate
- Radio licence
What is the cause of carburetor icing?
When humid air temp. is between -13 and 38 degrees celcius, ice forms on the induction system. Rapid cooling caused by the heat extraction of the air during fuel vaporization. Also because of the high expantion of the air through the carby venturi.
Indication of carby icing
- Loss of RPM
- Loss of manifold pressure
- Airspeed loss
- Engine roughness
When air-fuel mixture is too rich
- engine will not run at full power
- engine will run unevenly
- engine will run cooler than desirable
- fuel is wasted
- foul sparkplugs and carbon deposits
- flight range is reduced
When air-fuel mixture is too lean
- Engine losses power
- Engine will run roughly
- Engine will operate at a higher temp.
- Engine knock
How does wind sock work
15 kts and above, sock will be horizontal
10 kts, 5 degrees below horizontal
6 kts, 30 degrees below horizontal
Setting up for run-up
- Choose a clean surface
- Do not block taxiway
- Aircraft nose in the wind (for better engine cooling)
- Slow down turning from downwind to upwind
- Nose wheel straight
- Stay on the Ground Frequency until ready to take-off
- Check for traffic on final approache
- Brakes might heat the disks and melt the snow, that turns into ice when landing
Taxiing at uncontrolled airports
- Pilot must use the MF (Mandatory Frequency) or the ATF (Aerodrome Traffic Frequency)
- if the airport doesnt have a UNICOM, MF or ATF, use 123.2
- State your backtrack
Ground Visual signal: Green flashing light
Clear to taxi
Ground Visual signal: Steady green light
Clear to take off
